I'd like someone to clear up, or point me to some document clearing up, the character encoding for tags. In some of my OGG:s, non-ASCII characters show up like this: ? -> a ? -> "a ? -> "o etc. While when I set new tags, they later all show up as '#'. What kind of encodings are used in these cases. Which is preferred? (I have no LC_* environment variables set, btw.)
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 04:51:16 +0200, Bj?rn Lindstr?m <bkhl@elektrubadur.se> wrote:> I'd like someone to clear up, or point me to some document clearing up, > the character encoding for tags. > > In some of my OGG:s, non-ASCII characters show up like this: > > ? -> a > ? -> "a > ? -> "o > > etc. > > While when I set new tags, they later all show up as '#'. What kind of > encodings are used in these cases. Which is preferred? > > (I have no LC_* environment variables set, btw.)Use a UTF-8-aware program to tag the files. You could try using vorbiscomment in a LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8 environment, or using vim to save tagfiles in UTF-8 and use vorbiscomment --raw to add the tags from the files. (sending also to vorbis@xiph.org)
On Friday 23 July 2004 12:51, Bj?rn Lindstr?m wrote:> I'd like someone to clear up, or point me to some document clearing up, > the character encoding for tags. > > In some of my OGG:s, non-ASCII characters show up like this: > > ? -> a > ? -> "a > ? -> "oWhen you say "show up like", I assume you mean "with program X, they show up like ...". Is 'X' vorbiscomment?> > etc. > > While when I set new tags, they later all show up as '#'. What kind of > encodings are used in these cases. Which is preferred?Likewise here - are you setting these tags with vorbiscomment? vorbiscomment is designed to do all this properly, but I think it has a few bugs. Patches would be welcomed. Mike
<200407231414.42823.msmith@xiph.org> Message-ID: <s38bri63nio.fsf@numerus.ling.uu.se> Michael Smith <msmith@xiph.org> writes:> On Friday 23 July 2004 12:51, Bj?rn Lindstr?m wrote: >> I'd like someone to clear up, or point me to some document clearing up, >> the character encoding for tags. >> >> In some of my OGG:s, non-ASCII characters show up like this: >> >> ? -> a >> ? -> "a >> ? -> "o > > When you say "show up like", I assume you mean "with program X, they show up > like ...". Is 'X' vorbiscomment?Yes, it is.